appal

常见例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• She hated the house—its very architecture appalled her.
  她很討厭這幢房子——單單它的建築式樣就令她不勝厭惡。
• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public.
  罪行之殘暴使公衆大爲震驚。
• The idea of sharing a room appalled her.
  郃住一個房間的想法使她驚駭。
• The number of people killed on the roads appalled the police.
  公路上的死亡人數使警方大爲震驚。
• The scale of the destruction appalled us.
  燬壞的程度讓我們驚恐不已。
• The thought of having to do it all again appals me.
  一想到要從頭再做一遍我就十分害怕。
• The thought of someone else driving my car appals me.
  想到我的車讓別的人來開,真使我不寒而慄。
• We were appalled at the prospect to having to miss our holiday.
  我們爲失去這一假日而感到大失所望。
• We were appalled when we heard that she had been murdered.
  聽說她被謀殺了,我們都嚇壞了。

S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

• It appalled me to see such sloppy work.
  看到這麽草率馬虎的産品,真叫我厭惡。
• We are appalled to see the misery around us.
  我們看到周圍一片淒慘的景象,不覺大爲愕然。

用作雙賓動動詞: S+～+ pron./n. +that-clause

• It appalled me that they could simply ignore the problem
  他們竟然把問題置之不理,令我非常詫異。
• It appalled them that no preparations had been made.
  使他們喫驚的是,準備工作一點都沒有。
• We are appalled that such conditions could exist among us.
  我們中間居然存在如此惡劣的生活狀況,真令人不勝驚愕。

更多例句

雙語例句

• I was appal(l)ed at the news.
  我被這消息嚇壞了。
• I dread sleeping: my dreams appal me.
  我怕睡覺：我的那些夢讓我害怕。
• To survive, the currency may come to acquire a level of fiscal-policy co-ordination that will appal the British.
  爲了存活，歐元或許得到一定程度上的財政郃作，這一點會吸引英國。

權威例句

• Tourists and fraternity boys flood the French Quarter now, wearing clothes that appal the stylish locals.
  ECONOMIST: Mardi Gras
• To survive, the currency may come to acquire a level of fiscal-policy co-ordination that will appal the British.
  ECONOMIST: Britain and Europe: No laughing matter The
• But it would appal Bangkok's elite and split the army.
  ECONOMIST: Thailand's succession
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